Light Online Book Four: Defender by Tom Larcombe

Author:Tom Larcombe [Larcombe, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: TML
Published: 2020-07-29T00:00:00+00:00

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The Orcish attack started with a bit of a surprise this time. Eddie was up on the wall, along with all the other archers, waiting for the Orcs visible in the distance to close, when there was a cry of surprise and a commotion from down on the ground inside the walls. He turned and saw Charles fighting with an Orc, a tall slender Orc wearing leather armor and wielding a sword and dagger.

“Damned assassin!” Charles cried out as he struck the Orc.

Now that attention had been drawn to the fight, it was over in moments as the overeager archers launched the arrows they'd had nocked at the assassin. A second later the Orcish pincushion dropped to the ground. A moment after that Charles looked up.

“What are you all doing watching in here? Keep an eye on the other Orcs.

When Eddie, as guilty as the rest of the archers about watching inside the walls instead of outside of them, turned around he saw that the ground he'd sworn was empty a minute ago was now filled with an advancing Orcish army.

I suppose you could call ninety or so fighting Orcs an army, he thought idly as his brain caught up to the situation.

Then his instincts took over and he started firing arrows. He wasn't the first to nock an arrow and fire, but he was nowhere near the last either.

Orcs were charging forward, each column of three of them carrying a ladder with shields slung over the top of the ladder to protect the bearers. He didn't even bother trying to target them, instead he launched his arrows farther out to where he could see the first rank of Orcish crossbow wielders just outside the lights Tiana had provided.

A moment later a command roared out of the darkness and the Orcish crossbows were raised and fired. A flame roared up behind the crossbows and Eddie distinctly saw a catapult illuminated by the light of its ammunition. The ball of fiery pitch, or rags, or whatever it was, Eddie had no idea, arced through the sky headed towards the walls.

About the same time Charles called up.

“Are they are in our ranging position?”

Eddie had already noticed that the crossbow Orcs were right around the area they'd targeted their own catapult on so he shouted back in the affirmative. The ball of flame was just impacting the wall when the 'Thrum' of the defending catapult set Eddie's teeth vibrating. An answering ball of flame went flying up and over the wall, breaking apart in mid-air to spread out and rain down fiery bits on the crossbow Orcs.

Where those little bits of flame hit, fire surged upwards, consuming whatever flammable item it landed on. Eddie glanced back in shock and saw Dominic standing near Stalker, a little grin on his face. When he saw Eddie looking, he gave him a small wave. Eddie just shook his head then turned and began to fire again.

While the crossbow Orcs hadn't all been slain by

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